A collection of recipes for cooking at home from a true food lover!
Hello, thanks for checking out my blog. My name is Kelly and during the last year I have spent an awful lot of time at home! With the pandemic stripping us of our usual freedoms, I have found cooking to be one of my last remaining refuges. Something I can still do which brings creativity, joy and can be shared with loved ones (within the same household!).
My most enduring pastime is to scour cookery books, websites, magazines, blogs, vlogs, basically anywhere for amazing recipes. I've tried, tested and tweaked many recipes over the years, it's in my nature to compare recipes and try and find the best version of anything, my husband will attest that I love a blind taste test! I hope that this blog will one day become a library full of all the recipes I love and the lessons learnt along the way.
Whilst cooking is a passion of mine, I also work full time and so for me, the best recipes need to be practical for a busy life, use every day ingredients whilst also being well balanced and of course delicious! I hope you will find something here that will be worthy of a place in your own regular recipe rotation and I am always looking for tips and ways to improve so would love to hear from you!
A bit more about me
I was born in London but grew up in Bournemouth, a seaside town on the south coast of England where my parents ran a small hotel. My parents are Malaysian-Chinese and so I have always had a range of food influences. For our hotel guests we would serve traditional British fayre, roast dinners, fish and chips, steak pie, and always a full English breakfast. As a child I was in charge of making the toast and peeling potatoes! When the hotel wasn't busy though, my mum's cultural heritage came to the fore. We'd have bao (steamed buns filled with juicy pork), fried noodles, sticky rice and all manner of exotic Chinese and Malaysian fusions that my mum had taken from her home town.
This is probably what started me with my love for food, right from an early age I was lucky enough to be exposed to a wide range of cuisines and I've grown up appreciating how food can be so intrinsically linked to one's own identity and history.
Fast forward many years and I have lived in China, Australia and been fortunate enough to have been able to fund many food based holiday adventures around the world! I live in London now which is a food lover's paradise, every possible food itch can be easily scratched in this incredible city! I am surrounded by friends and family who also share a passion for food and am never one to miss an opportunity to learn a new recipe or try experimenting.
My resulting blog as I hope you will see, is very mixed. I don't have a niche, I just want to share the food that I love and hope you will enjoy and be able to share these recipes with your loved ones.